After an eight-year absence, Simon Rattle returned to Philadelphia with his new orchestra and one of his calling cards: a wonderfully idiosyncratic, inexorable Mahler 6. My review for Bachtrack

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“Music that doesn’t come from the heart isn’t music.” The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra seem to have sent this one from the heart, says Alexander Hall bachtrack.com/review-royal-p…

What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Freitag, der Dreizehnte celebrates Schoenberg at the Reaktor Theater an der Wien
✍️ Chanda VanderHart
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Kevin Ng Bachtrack Thoughtful and perceptive - I enjoyed your review. I was reminded of what I often read about Callas, which was the, to some surprising, stillness of her actions in performance.

Goerke and Grimsley head a musically sumptuous, dramatically staid Die Walküre at The Atlanta Opera
✍️ Cameron Kelsall
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Gustavo Dudamel and Hilary Hahn lead New York Philharmonic in exuberant Spanish program
✍️ Sam Jacobson
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Puccini and the moderns: a composer in the 20th century
✍️ Alexandra Wilson
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All about Asmik: Grigorian debuts at the Metropolitan Opera in Madama Butterfly
✍️ Kevin Ng
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My brief guide to summer opera in the UK this year: bachtrack.com/feature-summer…

'Incompetence or malice?' No need to tell you which failing organisation this is about.

Do read it. it's excellent analytical piece by David Karlin, the founder of Bachtrack

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Mozart Lite and standard issue Bartók from Canellakis, Barnatan and the LA Phil at Disney Hall
✍️ Laurence Vittes
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Gustavo Dudamel and Hilary Hahn lead New York Philharmonic in exuberant Spanish program
✍️ Sam Jacobson
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What do you get for the composer who made – and also kind of broke – everything? Freitag, der Dreizehnte celebrates Schoenberg at the Reaktor Theater an der Wien
✍️ Chanda VanderHart
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“whether or not you…agree or disagree with the…things it says, this is a very bad document, so bad as to strongly suggest that an organisation that can publish such a report is unfit for purpose.” ⁦Bachtrack⁩ on ⁦⁦Arts Council England⁩ bachtrack.com/opinion-arts-c…

Hymns of praise: a stirring climax to Schiff's Mendelssohn cycle with OAE Southbank Centre
✍️ Peter Quantrill
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The Royal Opera House has announced its 2024-25 season. Find all the opera listings already on Bachtrack:
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Oceanic swells, orchestral tangles: Baltic & Estonian Music Days ERSO Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
✍️ Lawrence Dunn
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The Met’s beautifully cast Carmen revival is enough to make you ignore Cracknell’s production - my thoughts for Bachtrack

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Slatkin brings genuine Gershwin to Prague
✍️ Frank Kuznik
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An epic swing and a miss: Boris Godunov opens at Hungarian State Opera
✍️ Orsolya Gyárfás
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